Each protein is a molecule made up of different combinations of 20 types of smaller, simpler amino acids. Protein molecules are long chains of amino acids that are folded into a three-dimensional ...

When NASA launched a spacecraft to an asteroid, scientists patiently waited for their chance to look at bits of the space ...

An artificial intelligence model has created a new protein that researchers say would have taken 500 million years to evolve ...

A peptide bond is a covalent bond that forms between the carboxyl group of one amino acid and the amino group of another, with the release of a water molecule. This process, known as condensation or ...

How did scientists discover and unlock this amino acid code? Once the budding molecular biology community was convinced about the triplet code, the race to decode which triplets specified which ...

Genetic engineering deployed to insert gene for human insulin into a bacterium, thus harnessing the substance for widespread ...

There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 ...

Synthetic biologists from Yale were able to re-write the genetic code of an organism—a novel genomically recoded organism ...

Researchers developed a technique to gain a deeper understanding of ribosome function and their cooperative behaviors.

Samples contain all five nucleobases of DNA and RNA, supporting theory that asteroids may have seeded Earth with life's ...